Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

From the malm- stem of malom +‎ -ozik.[1]

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɒlmozik]
  • Hyphenation: mal‧mo‧zik
  • Rhymes: -ozik

Verb edit

malmozik

  1. (intransitive) to play the nine men's morris
  2. (intransitive) to twiddle one's thumbs (to circle one's thumbs around one another, with the fingers interlaced, usually done out of boredom or to show disinterest)

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ malmozik in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading edit

  • malmozik in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN